Research 

Post doctoral Research Associate

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal India

June 2022- Present

Activities:

• Designing and development of Non Fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on Perylenebisimides for Excitonic Solar Cells Applications.

• Synthesis of N-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as the emissive materials.

• Rational Designing Synthesis and Characterization of  Chiral  Tetrapyrrolic Macromolecules (Corrole and Porphyrins)  for Catalysis and Optoelectronic Devices Applications. 

Research outputs:

• Shahjad*, Sujesh, S., P. Varshney, A. Kumari, A. Mishra. Phenoxazine and Phenothiazine Flanked Perylenebisimide: Non-Fullerene Acceptors for BHJ Organic Solar Cells. Manuscript Status: Under review in Synthetic Metals.

• Shahjad, P. Varshney, S. Sujesh, J. Sankar. Synthesis and characterization of Rubicene Derivative: Blue light emitters. Manuscript Status: Communicated in Chem. Comm.

• Shahjad, J. Sankar. Corrole and its derivatives: Synthesis and Chiroptical Properties for Circular Polarized Light-TADF OLEDs applications. Manuscript Status: under preparation

CSIR-Research Associate

Advanced Materials and Device Meteorology Division

CSIR- National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

November 2020-June 2022

Activities:

• Designing and development of Non Fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based 3-Hexylthiophene, Diketopyrrolopyrrole and Benzothiadiazole for Excitonic Solar Cells Applications.

Research outputs:

• Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, Advance article. 

• Journal of Polymer Research 2023 30:53 

• Synthetic Metals 2022, 291, 117170.